Love and Ethnicity.

As I entered the open doors of opportunity on my first day at a new school, faces I'd never seen greeted me - different faces from what I was used to. First, they all belonged to girls (something I was definitely not used to). Second, they were all one color, white. At first, it didn't phase me. I just thought, Hey, it's a different building, different teachers and a different schedule. There must be different people, too. But what I didn't grasp was how different these people really were.

I was born and raised in a city on the outskirts of Boston where more than 15 percent live below the state's poverty level and more than 51 percent are what the state calls "minorities." Even though I attended a small Catholic grade school in the city, the classes were a mix of Asian, Hispanic, African-American and Caucasian students. It didn't occur to me that some of my best friends were a different race, or that some of my first boyfriends were a different ethnicity.

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When I left my city of diversity, I entered a suburban high school full of mostly upper-middle class girls from affluent towns. It was not until then I realized that not everyone had my childhood experiences. Not everyone was taught to speak Spanish by her best friend whose family came from Puerto Rico a few years before. Not everyone had danced to Kenyan music in traditional tribal attire. Not everyone had shared her lunch and school supplies with a friend whose parents were on welfare. Not everyone had learned that neither the color of one's skin nor one's social status can be seen when you love someone.

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